Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species
Author
Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
Author
Masner, Lubomir
Author
Delsinne, Thibaut
text
Zootaxa
2012
3337
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56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281325
706d7536-7046-48ee-a586-a7bd417b58eb
1175-5326
281325
Trichacis laticornis
Buhl, 2001
Trichacis laticornis
Buhl, 2001
: 34
. Original description.
Diagnosis.
Diagnostic characters provided for
T. laticornis
are temple projection absent; notaulus fading out in anterior fourth; sharp hyperoccipital carina; OOL> LOL; distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina shorter than diameter of posterior ocellus; occiput medially smooth and laterovertically striate-coriaceous; mid lobe of mesoscutum posteriorly distinctly blunt, very slightly longer than lateral lobe, nearly (but not quite) reaching base of mesoscutellum; mesopleural carina only visible in slightly less than anterior half of mesopleuron; Tl hardly as long as wide (
Buhl 2001, and pers. comm.
).
The female
holotype
and the female
paratype
were collected in
Honduras
. They were deposited at the Museum of Zoology, Lund University,
Sweden
(
Buhl 2001
).
Trichacis laticornis
is close to
T. hansoni
but could be distinguished from the latter by its vertex laterovertically striate-coriaceous (coriaceous without striae in
T. hansoni
).